Welcome from Northern California, ( altho i'm a michigander, & lived & worked in kzoo & portage for a number of years, bailed in '01 & never looked back )
so, what's up besides the national high unemployement rates there, & the upcoming snow season that piles snow up past your adamsapple ? ( & i don't mean the nice white fresh fluffy stuff,,, but the slop thats brown from being pushed around by numerous plows for weeks on end )
( sorry 'bout that, can you tell that i thinks it's a hellhole ? )
got a brother that lives over in Bangor, he's an industrial electrician, ( smart as a whip, dumber than a box of rocks ) been working in those little sweatshops for years, bouncing from one sweatshop to the next, cause they keep folding,, out of business,,, kaput,,,
oh well,,, hope things are good in your world
Dog